Instagram Stories Has a Another New Feature That Looks a Whole Lot Like Snapchat

As soon as Instagram released its addictive Stories feature, people started comparing it to Snapchat. And now, it has announced a new feature that Snapchat snobs can say they knew about first.

On Tuesday, Instagram announced that it's rolling out location-based stickers, for now just for users in New York City and Jakarta, Indonesia. So far, there are more than a dozen stickers available for each city as part of a new app update.

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Users in those two cities can find them when they take a photo or video for Instagram Stories. They just tap the sticker icon and can see a variety of options that showcase their city, and perhaps even the neighborhood they're in at that very moment.

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Of course, this feature doesn't look that new if you're a frequent Snapchat user. TechCrunch notes that the app rolled out location-based stickers in August, starting in San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, and several other international cities. And that's on top of geofilters that let you add custom art to your snaps depending on where you are. Now, all Instagram needs are those addictive selfie lenses and it will have basically caught up to Snapchat. Clearly, it's on.

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